"Other than my religion the biggest reason I won't buy these kinds of "discoveries" is based on two major things. 1) the agenda of the discoverer is to prove what they already believe so they interpret or twist the data accordingly. 2) there are so many assumptions and "educated" guesses made that if each one has a generous 25% chance of being correct the end percentage is incredibly small."
The Bible does not specifically date this earth, rather it describes events that make it very very very old. What can be approximately dated is the time in which man in the flesh was place upon this earth and some of the creatures created at the same time.
Genesis does not describe when the souls were created, it says that it was placement of the soul in the flesh made the flesh a living being. Evolutionists are obsessed with flesh and their excuse for a need of transitional flesh is cause they have no scientific method of testing the "soul".
The oldness of this creature is not in conflict with what the Bible says, Peter describes three different world ages.
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD That created the heavens; God Himself That formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD: and there is none else.
So Genesis 1:2 is describing an event that cause this earth to become without form = waste, void, and ...'darkness' = which is respesentative of the evil one.
We are told in Ezekiel 28 that Satan was in the Garden of Eden and Genesis does not describe him as part of the creation, he is call the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So evolution by their own admission can not distinguish between good and evil as they have no ability to test the "supernatural", which means things their flesh eyes are blind to.
I once heard an analogy on this issue that seems appropiate.
Which is more complex, a standard computer or a human. IMO a human is much more complex. So didn't computers evolve out of beach sand?
Evolution is bunk. Its based on a partial set of data which has been compromised and selectively interpreted. Its purpose is to attack religion.
Pro-evolutionists will throw back things like the law of gravit as proof of evolution. Nonsense, if God can create us he can certainly create a set of rules by which things function.